Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
2784 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+6270%
5733
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
90
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
May 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
2816
Shading Units
32
176
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
50W
900 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
G96C
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.3
Shader Model
4.0